Weight loss but no Inches loss???

Throw away the tape measure

How big were you to begin with and how tall? Your body loses weight from all over, so if you're particularly big/tall to begin with, it takes longer to see results. I'm 5'9" and started out at 343 pounds. I've lost nearly 20 pounds and still haven't seen much of a difference in actual inches. My pants might be slightly looser, but it's nothing super significant. Just be patient, keep losing weight, and the inches will start coming off! building muscle also helps you shed inches, though you won't lose weight as fast. That choice depends on the person though. I know if I was focusing on trying to build muscle at my current weight and activity level, I would just end up quitting.

30 inches from where? That's a super significant amount. Like a whole person.

I wasn't aware that a whole person was composed of only 30 inches.

i had the same thing, after one month the scale was going down and I was really disappointed that the tape measure hadn't budged. I'm pretty sure I measure in the same places as I have given specific names to the locations.

But, the good news is, after 2 months, suddenly when I re-measured I had lost between 0.5 and 1 inch across every single measurement. My next vistory will come when I can actually *see* this loss with my own eyes because right now when I look in the mirror I still think I look exactly the same (though I suspect that's more to do with the fact that my eyes weren't registering the truth of my actual aize before starting out )

I've lost 9.4 lbs, but no inches anywhere on my body! How is this possible?!

I am having the same problem and can't figure it out, either.

I hear visceral fat around your organs is the first to go. That is a good thing because that is the fat that puts you at risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. You are losing visceral fat when you notice your belly getting less firm (because you are only left with the subcutaneous stuff under the skin).

You're probably losing from a different place than you're measuring.

My hip, thigh, and waist measurements have been the same for a couple of months now but I've lost a pants size. I'm just not measuring in the right spot to see the loss.

In my most humble opinion....The tape measure like pretty much every other measuring technique is not a very reliable indicator of progress or lack there of in the short term. I switched over to just weighing myself once a day and taking my weekly average and never looked back.

My weight loss is a law unto itself - who knows what mysterious rules it goes by. Sometimes I lose inches and weight, sometimes it's just inches, sometimes it's just weight. Sometimes I lose neither and my close feel more baggy...

Keep at it, your body is doing it's own thing!

You've got 92 pounds to go. I wouldn't worry about it just yet.

Someone explained it in a really easy way on these forums a while ago, I'll repeat what they said:

Think of yourself as a roll of toilet paper with "goal-weight you" being the cardboard tube in the middle and each sheet of TP a pound. Starting out with a full roll, you're going to need to remove a lot of sheets to start noticing a difference in the size of the roll. As you get closer to the center, it will take fewer and fewer sheets to see a difference.